Leon Festinger Sayings

#1. Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

Nick Carter

#2. Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Ptolemy

#3. Don't wear anything under this. I want to be on that stage, looking down at you, and knowing that you're bare underneath. Knowing that I could walk up behind you if I wanted and within just a matter of seconds, be lodged deep inside you.

Sawyer Bennett

#4. You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

Richard Thompson

#5. When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

Leon Festinger

#6. There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.

Howie Mandel

#7. Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

George Steiner

#8. Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

Joyce Tenneson

#9. A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

Leon Festinger

#10. I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

Gale Sayers

#11. Live in a house you can afford, but eat like a king.

Kunal Nayyar

#12. I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

Leon Festinger

#13. People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

Leon Festinger